Amazon shutters Blue Jay robot as it transitions to Orbital, a new modular warehouse system enhancing same-day delivery ...

Just months after calling Blue Jay a core warehouse technology, the company shelved it as part of a broader shift in how its ...

Amazon is now using more than one million robots in its facilities, the company says. The retail giant said three in four global deliveries are helped in some way by robotics. As Amazon relies more on ...

Amazon pulled the plug on Blue Jay, its high-profile warehouse robot, in January 2026, barely three months after the system was introduced at a splashy company event. The rapid shutdown of a project ...

Could the days of mass human hiring at Amazon warehouses be numbered? The e-commerce company is looking to ramp up the use of automation in the coming years, which would allow it to hire about 600,000 ...

Amazon is the second-largest employer in the world, with 1.5 million workers. A new report shows that Amazon will not have to hire 600,000 people by 2033, thanks to robots and automation. Amazon ...

Amazon has deployed its one millionth robot to its network of global warehouses, bringing it close to the number of actual humans it employs in those same locations. The new robot was installed in one ...

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